The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-05-07
WHEELING, W. VA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY Il 1887.
AMONG THE CHURCHES.
Some Late Events of Interest In the Re-
llglous World.

AMONG lHE CHURCHES.
Some Late Events uf Interest In the Re-
lIglous World.
Tho largest parishes in tho Lutheran
Church nrc to DO found In Central Russia, One
Of these numbers 400 villages and comprises
$500 sOuis.
In 4 Protestant Church building ut
Smyrna three separate congregations worship
erery Sunday In rs many different languages,
Armenian, Turkish md Greek.
OF the $1,000 inhabitants Of tho Sa.
moan Islands It is stated Tint 1000 nrc church
members and 5000 arc candidates for mcmbcr-
ship. There arc 30 nattvc ministers.
The Rev. George Grcnfcll in the mis-.
sion steamer Peace has travcrsed 3,l0O miles
along tho Congo river md its larger tributaries
visiting many tribes which had never seen n
white man before.
1t Is proposed TO erect n monument to
Robert Snow, tho founder OF tho FIRST Sunday
school In Brooklyn. The estimated cost will be
nbout $1,000, to DO raisoi By subscriptions
from sunday-school scholars.
There Is a growing feeling for church
unity In the German Reformed Church, accord
Ing TO tho Cristidn World. Tint paper thinks
tho desire Is for union with tho Presbyterian
or Dutch Reformed Church, or both.
At St. John the Baptist's Church,
Liverpool, Eng, where alleged ritualIstIc prac-
tees arc carried on. tho vicar on Sunday twice
lighted tho candles on tho nltar. md ono OF tho
church wardcns each time blew them out.
Father Hyacinthe, whose secession
from tho Roman Catholic Church made sucl, n
sensation In Paris some years ago, has not been
.blo to keep up his independent place OF wor-
hip, md hcdclivcrcd his Lcntcn lectures In the
American Church In Paris.
A Protestant, confederation has been
formed in Germany whose announced object
Is to seek on the ono hand to combat tho grow
ing powc' Of the Roman Catholic Church, and
on tho other to strengthen evangelical unity
among Protestant churches.
Dr.. R, Kerr Ecclcs, writing in the English
Baptist Aa0asine Of the condition Of things &C.
clcsiastical in this country, says: "Tl,c grand
factor In tho American Christianity Of to-day
Is feminine. Men may bcp.ofcssors, preachers
and %deacons, but the activities of the member
ship Of the church ut largo are sustained By
women"
The latest device of the Socialists of
London for attracting public attention Is to
march In procession to churches. When they
concentrated their forces on st. paurs Cathc-
dral tho Archdcacon of London, who prcachcd
on tho occasion. gave them a sermon that Just
suited their needs on tho text: 'Tho rich and
tho poor meet together; tho Lord Is the maker
Of them ILL.,"
Speaking of Cardinal Gibbons report
on tho knights Of Labor tho London Ta5Ist
says: "IfIc new democratic power needs only
70. DO Christianized, baptized and Instructed.
Tho mission Of the church Is to effect this, and
as she has C%hristianizcd tho old autocrntic
power SO now she must do tho Same thing for
tho democratic. Tho Tablet commcnds CardI-
NIL Gibbons report us IN extremely important
and able document.
The suffice and juggernaut have been
abolished in India, but the British government
stu keeps Its hands OF tho child marriages,
md the widows arc still subject / 0 contu1nely,
abuse md ostrlcism. Tho world Is d lurgc one
and difficult to govern with equity. BY and by
the moral sense will stop tho Ubiquitous opium
trade. and British wealth will cease % he
wrrng from the dcbauchcry of families caused
by this awful traflc.
Twenty-Five years of Christian effort
among the needy md deserving poor Of New
York has convinced tho Rev. C. C. Goss that
many of these, in nil parts of tho city, arc I'M
able for want of means, experience, or on nc
count or ti1nidlty, to secure their Just and law
full rights. For the benefit of such Mr.. Goss
hns opened n bureau in, connection with tho
Peoples Mission, where legal advice will be
given free Of charge, and where matters Of
dispute OF n civil character will be adjusted, or
II need be, prosecuted.
The results of Protestant missionary
enterprise AFRO SUMMED up ms follows: Eight
hundred md seventy thousand adults, converts
from among tho heather. These, with their
families and dependents, form Christian COM
munitics scattered over almost every portion
OF tho habitablo globe, numbering in the as-
grcgntc ut lcast 100000 souls. Two thousand
five hundred OF these converts arc ordained
ministers Of tho gospel, placed over Christian
congregations: 1900 nrc employed rs %eyungcl-
lists to their heAthcn fcllow-countrymcn, and
large number arc acting rs voluntary agents In
preaching and teaching In Sunday schools and
engaged In other works Of Christian usefulness.
number of tho children Of the hcnthcn, are re-
ccIving secular md religious instruction In dny
schools. +
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